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Guest Blogger: DIY Flower Pin
Hi I’m Deb from Real Girl Runway. I’m so honored to be here again sharing my Goodwill DIY ideas with you. Spring always brings on the floral prints and flowers. I began wearing flower pins when Carrie from Sex and the City began sporting them. I love the way they transform an outfit. A simple [...]
Tags: DC Goodwill, DIY, Goodwill, Real Girl Runway, scarf
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Fashion Forward: No lace, please
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Fashion Forward with the DCGF
After a fruitless day of shopping at the Columbia Pike Goodwill store (okay, I got plenty of stuff, but not what I set out to find!), I struck out on my own to peruse the Rockville location. I had to find something to wear to the Fashion Fights Poverty gala! I did find something: a [...]
Tags: DIY, lace, vintage, vintage suit
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Fashion Forward: Fabric adornments
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Ever gotten a great bargain at Goodwill, then wondered if you would ever wear the garment in question? It happens to even the savviest of shoppers, but there’s no shame involved. All those “mistakes” can be turned into great DIY projects!* Kendra of The Good Life recently offered a tutorial to refashion a piece of [...]
Tags: DIY, fabric, Goodwill, jewelry, necklace, The Goodwill Life
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Guest Blogger: Bright Lights vs. Spray Paint
Hi, I’m Deb of Real Girl Runway. I really enjoy sharing my DIY projects with all of you and I’m thrilled to be guest blogging today. My friend, the DC Goodwill Fashionista, has called me the “Queen of Spray Paint”. I don’t know about Queen but I really do love spray paint. I’ve used it [...]
Tags: DC Goodwill, DIY, Goodwill, Real Girl Runway, spray paint
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The perils of pinning
Savvy shoppers, are you on Pinterest? I recently logged on to this hot website to clean some of the clutter off my real bulletin boards at home…and pin it up on the World Wide Web, instead. If you’ve never checked out Pinterest, it’s like scrapbooking on your computer screen. But instead of using just the [...]
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Fashion Forward: A very savvy TV stand
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When Sarah of Savvy Young Something sent us an email to highlight a few of her Goodwill DIY projects, it was a match made in heaven. Here you have a smart Goodwill shopper with a ton of patience for a big project that was a smashing success. Can she make one for me?! Sarah found [...]
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Fashion Forward: Just Jewelry
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We continue Halloween week here at Goodwill with a different type of advice for putting together an awesome Halloween costume. Why? Well, dear reader, because we all know that accessories can make an outfit—and a costume, too! For a bit of inspiration and the nerve to alter jewelry, we turn to Real Girl Runway, who [...]
Tags: accessories, costumes, DIY, Halloween, jewelry, paint, Real Girl Runway
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Fashion Forward: Pinning it Together
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Here’s some DIY inspiration from Lindsey in San Francisco, a budget-conscious student who writes the blog Clothes Captioned. Check it out for tons of photos of Lindsey’s creative outfits, including this dress she snagged at her local Goodwill. Instead of making a more permanent alteration, Lindsey turned to safety pins to update this—dare I say [...]
Tags: Clothes Captioned, DIY, Goodwill
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Fashion Forward: Cropped
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This fashionista believes it takes a bold woman to wear a crop top with confidence. It takes an even bolder one to make a crop top herself! This DIY adventure comes from A Beautiful Mess, where guest blogger Kara revealed a Goodwill find for the whopping cost of $4. Kara wanted an on-trend crop top [...]
Tags: A Beautiful Mess, crop top, DIY, Goodwill, inspiration, Red Velvet, vintage
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Fashion Forward: Hemming and Hawing
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I recently stumbled across a combined DIY success and Goodwill good find. The power of the Internet! Dani, the author of the blog Crow and Quill, wanted to try altering a dress. Naturally, she headed to her local Goodwill to score something she wouldn’t feel bad about if the alteration went awry. Imagine her surprise [...]
Tags: Crow and Quill, DIY, Fashion Forward, Goodwill
